Jonathan Grubb

Current

• Head of Product at Flexilis, Inc.
• Co-Founder & Advisor at Get Satisfaction
• President & Co-Founder at Rubyred Labs, Inc

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Past

• Vice President, Product & Community at LOUD3R
• Lead Designer for Mobile at Yahoo!
• User Experience Manager at Vodafone

• Designer at Trapezo
• Designer at Digital Wave Technologies, Inc.
• Intern at Human Code

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Jonathan Grubb’s Summary

I love technology, but I love people too much to see technology as an end in itself. I get most excited helping a product jump from "cool tech demo" to an essential part of people's daily lives.

Jonathan Grubb’s Specialties:

Community building, interaction design, product management, marketing, consumer applications, mobile applications.

Jonathan Grubb’s Experience

• Head of Product

  Flexilis, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Responsible for cross-platform mobile security suite.

• Co-Founder & Advisor

  Get Satisfaction

  (Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  In 2007 Rubyred Labs spun off Get Satisfaction, a venture-backed startup delivering People-Powered Customer Service. It has helped more than 14,000 companies and over 11 million customers.
  
  I saw the company through the fundraising process and initial launch before relocating to Los Angeles (for love). I currently serve as an advisor and happy shareholder.
  
  The company has raised $2.55M from First Round Capital, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and SoftTech VC.

• President & Co-Founder

  Rubyred Labs, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  In 2005 my partners and I founded Rubyred Labs with the goal of working on whatever we thought was cool with no particular plan. Our design and/or development projects included Yahoo!'s mobile homepage, Sprint's mobile communication software (including the hit Samsung Instinct and 20 million future devices), AdMob's ad buying system, and Heavy.com.
  
  Rubyred’s side projects included
  - Valleyschwag: a joke turned real company turned joke again that delivered web schwag to startup fans around the world.
  - The RVIP Lounge & Karaoke Cabaret: a rolling party in a 30 foot RV coming to a tech conference or film festival near you.
  - Cereal Bar: a weekly Monday morning tech party that gained inexplicable international media attention.

• Vice President, Product & Community

  LOUD3R

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

  I am responsible for LOUD3R's rapidly growing network of enthusiast content sites, as well as the underlying platform. I manage the sales process with new clients, including collaboration with the CEO on contracts, terms, pricing, and implementation.
  
  I'm currently developing the product offering and building communities around each property, which involves a lot of contact with our customers (be they independent photo-bloggers or global media companies) and throwing parties where we drive around tech festivals singing karaoke in an RV.

• Lead Designer for Mobile

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  August 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  I led the global design strategy for Yahoo Mobile, designing Mobile Web, SMS, and embedded applications for Yahoo!'s hundreds of millions of users. My team designed core communication apps that are built into nearly all mobile phones.

• User Experience Manager

  Vodafone

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2001 — June 2003 (2 years )

  At Vodafone, I designed community and communication products for Vodafone Live, introducing usable mobile data services (and the Camera Phone) to many international markets.

• Designer

  Trapezo

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• Designer

  Digital Wave Technologies, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1997 — October 2000 (3 years )

• Intern

  Human Code

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)

  I started the day after high school graduation. I spent a lot of time with a frog that solved math problems for second graders.